School Of Art Institute Of Chicago

The School of Art Institute of Chicago announced the reopening of a controversial exhibit featuring an American flag lying on the floor, prompting angry veterans to file suit. The show was closed Monday after about 60 veterans gathered outside the school to protest the exhibit. In a statement, the school said only students, faculty and staff would be allowed to view the exhibit after the reopening today.

The School of Art Institute of Chicago announced the reopening of a controversial exhibit featuring an American flag lying on the floor, prompting angry veterans to file suit. The show was closed Monday after about 60 veterans gathered outside the school to protest the exhibit. In a statement, the school said only students, faculty and staff would be allowed to view the exhibit after the reopening today.

Christopher Bratton, a former dean at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has become the new president of the San Francisco Art Institute. * Actress Kate Hudson, 24, and her musician husband Chris Robinson, 37, are parents of a baby boy born Wednesday.

Regarding "A Vending Machine Selling IPods?" June 14: At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, we've offered vending machines for a little over three years now from which students may purchase blank media (tapes, disks, flash cards), batteries, headphones and office supplies. It allows students to acquire items without leaving the building, and during hours when other sources may be closed. At first, we made fun of my boss when he came up with the idea, but it has become quite popular, and even a landmark.

July 18, 1988 | JOHN VOLAND, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press

Miniature golf courses qualify as kitsch, certainly. Nostalgia, probably. But art? A squad of Chicago artists have designed a playable indoors course that replaces the usual picaresque windmills and fantasy castles with earthquakes, wrecked cars, black holes and nuclear destruction. The nearly life-size course--playable at $2 a round--is also an art exhibit titled "Par Excellence!" at a warehouse-sized gallery of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through Aug. 20.

Albert E. Lewin, 79, writer of books and scripts for stage, screen, television and radio. Lewin grew up in New York and Chicago and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles Valley College.

Only about a year has passed since Ben Medansky started his own studio, but already his cheeky wabi sabi ceramics have landed on the shelves of stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. “Ceramics is something you do every day,” said Medansky, whose pieces start at $50 and run upwards of $300. “Clay is so alive. It's like having a bunch of crying babies to take care of daily.” PHOTO GALLERY: Ben Medansky's ceramics Medansky has a wry style.

"The Voice of the Homeless": a public art project designed by BJ Krivanek. Consisting of two parts--"Orientation Rotunda," right, and the "Electronic Statement"--the piece was created for the new Union Rescue Mission in Downtown.

Being known as the "second generation" has a rather depressing sound, as if you were incapable of doing much but imitating your forebears. But the second-generation Abstract Expressionists, as they are known, are a worthy group in their own right. Although these painters didn't make the initial breakthroughs, their personal discoveries enriched the vocabulary of abstraction. And while the first generation was overwhelmingly male, the second wave included several women.